520819 - header colors are too dark

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect, P3)

Description

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

much of the header theme colors for the mac were ported over from the windows and linux themes originally.  We need to update these to be more inline with the mac theme, especially apps like Mail.app look a lot lighter in this respect.

The mac uses a much better a11y system than windows and linux so we don't need to stick to css system colors like we would for those.  However we should figure out the mac theme colors and stay inline with that.

Comment 1

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

It seems like the actual background color is equally heavy as other mac apps, but I think we could make the buttons look nicer in order to look less 'heavy'.

Comment 2

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Attachment: patch for lighter header buttons

This makes the header feel a lot lighter.
Also fixes the odd looking Other Actions-button.

Comment 3

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Attachment: sceenshot of patch in action

Comment 4

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Comment on attachment 405481 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for lighter header buttons

r=dmose

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Comment on attachment 405481 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for lighter header buttons

this bit-rotted a little with the other mac header patch going in but it looks good.

Comment 6

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Attachment: unbitrotted patch

This should work!

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/fac0a676e724